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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
Interesting Women.

GAIL HAMILTON says that women can
never hope to rule the state until they give
up their baby Names
SARAH BERNHARDT comes back to visit
us less fragile in figure than formerly, but
is said to be none the less interesting in
her acting.
MISS HEWITT, daughter of Mayor Hew-
lit, is said to have introduced the fashion
among girls of having mastiffs and other
large doAs as pets.
Miss KATE FIELD thinks that it is i'm
possible to suggest any radical change or
improvement in womans dress while the
general style is at all as it is now; but that,
perhaps, If Queen Victoria or Mrs. Cleve-
land should adopt a radically new form of
dress, the women would all follow.
THE marriage of Miss Mary Agnes
Christina Mesmer and Mr.. G.. j. Griffith, at
Los Angeles, was a marriage of millions.
The bride has 1000, 900 in her own right,
while the grooms wealth is estimated at
S5,0G0,0 900 in land and mines. She is
twenty years old and speaks four lam
guages. while he is thirty-four.
MISS GRACE HOWARD, daughter OF
"Joe" Howard, is going to Dakota next
month to spend two or three years instruct
ing the Indians. Miss Howard is an ex-
ceedingly talented woman, with a some
what strong mind. She has spent some
time on the frontier. and quite strong
friendship exists between her and Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland because of their
sympathies in the same direction.
MISS MIDDLE MORGAN, the great news
paper woman authority on live stock, does
not live in that much described and mar
velous house Of hers in Jersey. She has
managed TO obtain the Office OF station
agent Mt little flag station on the Penn
sylvania Railroad just out of Jersey City.
In this way, by sleeping in the depot, she
saves rent, and picks up enough coal and
wood along the track TO keep her in fuel.
She never pays a car fare nor ferry ticket,
and if she cannot get pass or deadhead
her way she walks.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
Little Women.

All the fashions tend to mako women
look taller, all the pompadoar styles are
being revived, and the coquettishness of
that era adapts itself only to the small
women. Beautiful giantesses are not the
vogue, and the time of the tiny creation
has come at last. OF course she triumphs
"a little woman could not resist that; of
course, gawky, horsey, and all the other
abominable adjectlves that can be applied
to big women, are in her possession, and
she delights in using them. She goes in
for being imm ensely innocent, and would
seem to have followed the advice
given in a French journal, of which
this only is remembered: Look con-
fdent and Indifferent; express your
self simply, and with voice Us sweet as
possible; be keenly alive to everything that
passes, yet appear absent minded; know
as much as possible, yet please by asking
questions. Having read everything, quote
nothing; seen everything, appear ignorant;
heard all, always express surprise; desir-
ing everything, ask for nothing. Be light
hearted; preserve your beauty; be in
dulgent, to attract sympathy. Do not force
wit; always listen attentlvely; be charita-
bic for your own satisfaction. See things
at a glance; judge quickly, and think more
quickly still, in order to keep cool head"
There Is an immense amount OF wisdom
in all this advice, which, singular as it may
seem, appeared, l believe, in La Vie
Parisenne. 1t takes a F-enchman to
think out all these things. for just as
certainly as he appreciates beauty at its
utmost value, just as certainly is it true
that he appreciates that something more
than beauty, which is bound to retain a
man, once he is made conscious of it. Bal
FAC says, the most celebrated attach
ments in history were all inspired by
women in whom the vulgar would have
found some defect. Cleopatra, Joanna OF
Naples, Diana of Poictiers, La Valliere.
Madam Pompadour, in short most of the
women whom love has rendered celebrated
were not without imperfections and infrm-
tiles, while most women whose beauty is
described to us as perfect have been finally
unhappy in their loves. Tois apparent
caprice must have its cause. Perhaps men
live by sentiment more than by pleasure;
perhaps the charm, wholly physical of a
beautiful woman, has its bounds, While
the charm. essentially moral, of a woman
of moderate beauty is infinite"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
PRATTLER,S FRANKS.

PROOF positive: "The teacher wanted
to box my ears this morning." remarked
Johnny Fizzletop. How do you know
that he wanted to box your ears'" asked his
mother. IF he hadn't wanted to box my
ears he wouldn't have done it, would he,
eh?"
ALITTLE five-year- old daughter of Amer
lean parents climbed on her fathers knees
and asked him to tell her great, great
secret. "Well, Mamie, here is one for you
you were born in Paris. ooh, what a
nice secret" cried the little girl. Does
mamma know"
PROFESSOR Ito foot of botany class -
Mention some of our common trees. Stu
dent Ash, maple, elm. larch. locust.
spruce, pine, horse - taking BREATH,
Professor prompting Stu
dent-All right, sir. If you've heard il be-
fore, I'll stop!
PROUD father who has just been pre-
sented with son)-"Flossy, little daueh-
ter. which would you like best to have-a
little sister or little brother ?"
Flossy (meditatively)- papa, if it's
just the same to you, think I'd rather have
a little white rabbit"
PROFESSOR who told the young men
to bring in an essay on an original sub
ject)-Well, Mr.. Saunders. what have YOU
got to-day? Collegian who spent the
summer as waiter at one of the mountain
botels)-Er-ro ,st beef, roast pork, fish.
and corn-beef HASH
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13

Applications made for the offeiAl action
Of the commission shall be made by petit
ton, which shall set forth the facts on
which they are founded. and be verified by
the oath Of the applicant or of some au-
thorized agent or attorney
Senators Dolph and Mitchell, Of Oregon,
presented to the commission memorials OF
various Boards of Trade in that State
praying for relief from exorbitant
freight charges in time 10 save
this years crop. Senator Dolph also pre-
scented petition of the Portland (Oregon)
Board of Trade in relation to the long and
short haul features. The memorialists say
they are not assured that the true meaning
of the law forbids the making of rates to
coast points In competition with the water
carriers and the Canadian Pacific; yet
If the commission so interprets the law
they ask the prompt use of the suspending
power.
A committee representing the Macon
(Ga.) Board of Trade submitted an elabo-
rately written argument in support of the
petition for the suspension of the long and
short haul clause, presented by Southern
business men. The more sparsely settled
condition of the South, and its deficiencies
in many respects as compared with the
manufacturing centers of the North and
East, were fully set forth as matters which
Justify the Intervention of the commission.
The declaration wac made that if the inter-
probation now threatened had been foreseen
when the bill was under consideration the
South would have opposed the measure
unanimously.
E. Ii. Russell, attorney for the Mobile Il
Ohio Railroad Company, presented a me-
moral praying that it be permitted to
maintain its local rates at non competing
points and meet competition at junction
points" by reduced rates. The petition
says the roads revenues are cut SO low by
competition with water routes that any re-
duction would endanger its solvency. His
request for an opportunity to address the
commission on Wednesday was granted.
The following letter, addressed to the
General Superintendent of the Canadian
Express Company, by direction of the
commission, explains itself:
DEAR SIR-Your letter of the 1st inst, re-
questing the decision OF the commission upon
the question whether the interstate commerce.
law applies to express companies has been laid
before the commission and duly considered II
any express company desires TO be heard
by the commission on the question you raise
an early opportunity will be offered for the pur
pose; but until such hearing is applied for the
commission will assume that the law does APP.
ply to such companies Very respectfully
L. M. COOLEY, Chairman
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
General Blacks AppOintees.

The political statistician of the New York
Tribune has been analyzing General
Blacks distribution of patronage, and he
finds that the General is taking good care
of his Congressional district primarily, and
of the State of Illinois secondarily. In
less than two years he has made forty APP
pointments and fourteen promotions of IL
linois people in his bureau. He lives in
the Fifteenth Congressional District, which
is represented by Republican. That dis
trict has received eleven of the forty ap-
pointments and two of the fourteen promo
tions. and is represented in the salary list
by the pretty sum of S22, 430, as compared
with 5000 for the remaining nineteen
Congressional districts. The ten Demo-
cratic districts have received twenty three
appointments and promotions, with salaries
amounting to $50, 400, about one-third 60
ing to the two districts represented by
Springer and Townshend, who are stanch
friends OF Black, and only one appoint
ment at 81, 500 year to Col. Morrison o
district. Col. Morrison evidently is not q
Black man. The nine Republican dis
tricts aside from the Fifteenth, IN which
Black lives, have received eighteen APP
pointments and promotions with salaries
amounting to so, 4O0 per year. Out of
one hundred men appointed by him as
special examiners, fifteen, or more than
one seventh, are from Illinois, while the
remainder are distributed among the other
thirty-seven States, and of the fifteen Illi-
nois appointments FIVE are credited to the
district in which Commissioner Black
lives
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13

The Poor Negro stiil 1t the Mercy 81 ihe
Democrats-votes Counted as hest
Suit the Purpose Of tho
bourbon.
[Pittsburg cor. Chicago Tribune

[Pittsburg cor Chicago Tribunel
Senator Sherman In the course OF an in
terview here was asked what he thought of
the Southern people. and said: well, in
order 10 work for their own good, the
colored vote ought to be recognized. There
is no disputing It, the great mass Of the ne,
gro vote of the South is either not counted
or counted to suit the tastes of the Demo-
cratic bosses. You may think that where
the negroes predominant they would force
their rights; but, strange as IL may seem,
such places are the most tyrannical sections
in the country. The talk that the negro
votes voluntarily for the Democracy is bun
combe; the negro vote is naturally solidly
Republican.
"How were you struck by the Birming-
ham incident"
"Forcibly, indeed, you may say, but not
injuriously When Proprietor Cowan, of
the hotel, refused TO admit a committee OF
colored men who called, he was guilty of
q bigotry which is not shared by the more
refined white people of the South. The
committee consisted of two ciergymen, two
barrisers and real-estate agent, all intel
ligent men. AS an instance of the fact
that Cowans conduct was not approved by
the better element of whites, will cite you
the conduct of Governor Aiken. He was
conversing with me when colored dele
CATION called to pay me their respects, and
he turned, greeted them cordially, and
warmly shook their hands.
"What are the prospects of the Republic
an party in the South?"
The party is growing just as fast as the
South grows. You will find that the
growth of the country, the development of
its resources, must 90 hand in hand with
the increase of our party. / find that the
free trade policy of the Democratic party
is weakening it. The whites are joining
the Republicans, rapidly recognizing the
Republicans as the champions of the tariff
issue. The Southern people are as anx-
ious to subserve their interests as we are
to subserve ours, and they are not slow il
falling to the fact in manufacturing dis
tricts that the defeat of the free-trade par
ty is their salvation"
He thought, from extended observation,
that the business boom in the South has
coma IN STAY
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
A Home Peril.

OF all social failings discourtesy is the
most fatal and most common. Husbands
speak roughly to their wives, and wives
mag" their husbands; brothers are rude,
and sisters are tyrannical; all oppose, con-
tradct, annoy one another, and no one thinks
it incumbent upon him or her to keep that
check on the temper. and that paddock on
the lips, which would be a matter of obi
CATION If a stranger were present. Though
there would be infinite distress-mourning
and lamentation unspeakable-should one
of the cross-grained brood die, SAYS the
Home journal, there is general atmos-
phere of storm, threatened or broken loose,
which makes living in such a home
damaging to the character and distressful
to the sensibilities. Here comes in the adj
vantage of discipline and the value of wise
authority. Here comes in contrariwise, the
evils Of this modern laxity, this abrogation
of authority, when parents have let the
reins drop from their hands, and discipline
not tyranny, not undue coercion, but the
moral pressure which Is the result of ex-
perence and knowledge-is as effete as the
dodo. We shall not do better in the next
generation, and we shall have to wait now
for the time when some great religious
passion OF national emotion shall knit So
ciety together again and restore the essen
tial spirit of discipline by the coherent force
of cause, an idea, a faith. Here is where re-
ligion, when sincere and personally applied,
is so valuable. 1t supplies the motive for
self control, the obligation for that patience
and forbearance with each other which Gre
ates sweetness of temper and courtesy OF
manner. And here it is that irreligion is
f. so hutful when people have not enough
moral force to supply, by self-respect and
consideration for others, that absolute con
troll over their baser natures which has been
lost by abjuration of authority. Ttose who
have taken to heart the sweet and tender
precepts of Christianity would necessarily
be courteous, gentle, of patient temper, of
complying ways. And IL, unfortunately, a
great deal of what is called piety exhales
itself in Journalism here and barren dog
mas there, the residuum turns its precepts
into practice, and that divine peace
which reigns within has its expression
without and the radiance of tho home
matches the sunshine Of the hoart.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
After the TeXas BulldOzers.

The first returns from the recent Con-
gressional inquiry into the charges of in
timidation in the Texas elections have
begun to come in, and they are not very
favorable to the Democratic party. The
United States Grand Jury has indicted
Judge Kirk and several other citizens of
Washington County, Texas, on the charge
of intimidating voters. and they are bound
over for trial. The fact that jury in the
State of Texas has found three bulldozers
deserving of trial, with reasonable ground
to expect them guilty, is pretty good proof
of their subsequent conviction. The in
vestigation before the Senate Committee
showed q condition of things that reflects
shame upon American institutions and dis
grace upon the Democratic party that is
responsible for it. 1t was brought out then
that armed men stood about the polls fright
ening voters away. That i'll some instances
they forcibly stopped the balloting and
closed the election long before the time re-
quired by law. That they used intimida-
ton, supported by violence, to compel men
to vote the Democratic ticket, or refrain
from voting at all. These facts were
brought out in the preliminary examina-
ton, and yet the Democrats in the Senate
stoutly insisted, when an investigation was
proposed, that there was no occasion for it,
and that the charges we're manufactured
for the purpose of making political capital
for the Republican party. The Grand Jury
III Texas evidently doesn't take that view of
it, and there is good ground for believing
that the jury that has finally to pass upon
the charges will not consider them untrue
or trifing. And yet with this indisputable
evidence of forcible interference by the
Democratic party with the right Of citizens
to vote, with plenty of proof that the DEM
ocratic party of the South is q constant
conspiracy against the honesty of elections,
and for the forcible and fraudulent usurpa-
ton of the right of suffrage, sentimental
lists like Grady gush about new South, y
and denounce any reference to these crimes
against society and government as waving
the bloody shirt, and an attempt to perpet-
uate sectional animosity and strife. If
the Democratic party wants clean bill of
health in the South, let it repudiate and
suppress the crimes against the ballot that
are committed in its name. Nothing will
do more to create public belief that there
really is a new South, where justice and
respect for law 60 hand in hand with the
genius of enterprise and progress, than the
assurance that in all its borders the right
of every man to cast his vote and have il
fairly counted is sacedly preserved and
enforced, whether he be rich or poor, black
or white. When that assurance can be
truthfully given there will be some occasion
to acknowledge the existence of q new
South, but not till then.-Des Moines Reg
iSfor
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
Mnssuimans and Pictures.

The equestrian statue of Mehemet
Ali is the only statue in Egypt, except.
ing, of course, those found in ancient
times. This is because of Mohamme-
dan religious scruples. The Mcham-
medans say that at the last day Allah
will say to every one guilty of the i'm :
pertinence of initiating His creations !:
"Put thou now a soul into this thing
that thou hast carved or painted in re-
semblance of my work." and when the
unhappy artists fail he will pack them
off to sheol in contemptuous wrath at
their presumption. Accordingly, from
the palace of the Khedive to the hum
blcst home of any Mussulman of Egypt
you may search in ain for picture or
n statue adorn ng its walls or decorat-
ing it's halls or chambers. -NeW York
Comm ercidi Advertiser.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
Young wives and husbands eapno, be too

Young wives and husbands cannot be too
strongly reminded of the probable sh..
wreck they will make of their happiness il
they yield TO that ill-temper which ex-
presses itself in discourtesy, want OF COM
pliance, unnecessary opposition, and
above all, that most disastrous amuse-
ment of "nagging" and creating a row.
Hundreds of households have gone
wrong for the mere want of checking
in time the habit of annoying as relief to
the momentary feeling of irritation or dis
comfort. The wife who gets into the way
of contradicting, of checking" her hus--
band, or opposing him in small things and
standing out in large ones-the husband,
who is sneering, contemptuous, tyrannical,
fault finding perhaps neither side know
ing the whole extent OF It's folly, but Just
giving way to IL as more easy than TO night
and conquer it-these young people are
doing their best to dig the grave of their
married peace, and some day poor, pale,
failing little love will fall into 1t,
stark and plumeless,. and will never
rise 10 life again. In the be-
ginning these little tiffs and discomforts are
made up with kiss from him and n few
tears from her to add cement to the recon-
Citation. BY time the titfs are more acrid
and the reconciliation is less warm. by
still further time this never comes in at all,
and things get into that chronic state when
there is never an open breach and never a
formal healing, but an widening rift
and never ending GOODNESS. Then the
two lives jar and grind like rusty hinges
locks which misfit the slots; wheels where
the axle is stiff-or anything else which
should work together in harmony and
smoothness, but which, for want of care to
keep the adjustment exact perhaps for
want of oil to the joints, creak and chafe
and hang and do not fit, to the annoyance,
and more, of All the bystanders.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
The Lake Carriers Object.

The following telegram was sent to the
Interstate Commerce Commission by the
Lake Carriers Association:
Understanding that the question is now be-
fore you of permitting rail lines to charge less
for long than short haul, thus enabling the
rail lines to continue their illegitimate compe-
tition with the water route az il the interstate
commerce law had not been enacted, the Lake
Carriers Association, comprising majority of
the vessel tonnage OF the great lakes, request
that you will hear an argument from it in oppo-
sition to such permission being granted, and
that you will fix time for such hearing. We
wiz undertake to have n representative appear
before you at whatever time you may set pre-
pared to present and support our views
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13

BoY-"Mister, do you wanter hire .
boy?" Young doctor (dubiously)-"What
can you do? Read, write, cipher? Have
you a recommendation from your last en-
ployer?" "No, sir: but I'm dreadful
liar, and know every bill collector in the
city," "Come around tomorrow morning
nj Nina
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13

A MAN by the name of Doodle, from
Connecticut, got full OF fighting whisky
over in a Canadian village, and the rshole
town was up in arms about it, Yankee
Doodle always did wake up the Britishers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13
THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION.
Numerous Petitions for Relief from Excess
sive Freight Rates.
Washington Telegram

The Interstate Commerce Commission
has promulgated the following rule of pro-
ceeding:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-13

SnAEsrEARE and Cervantes died on
the same day-April %, 1916.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-25
BLACK Wolff !!
-LEPROSY.

and consequently incurable. It Is impossible TO
describe hersufferings Her body from the crown
OF her head TO the soles of her feet was mass OF
decay, masses of flesh rotting OF and leaving
great cavities Her fingers festered and three or
four nails dropped of at one time. Her limbs
contracted by the fearful liberation, and for
several years she did net leave her bed. Her
weight was reduced from f25 to 90 lbs. Perhaps
some faint idea of her condition can be cleaned
from tho fact that three pounds Of Cosmoline or
ointment were used per week in DRESSING. her
sores Finally the physicians acknowledged
their defeat by this Black Wolf and commended
the sufferer 10 her all.wise Creator.
Her husband hearing wonderful reports OF the
use or SwIFT's Specific Is. s 81 prevailed on her
70 try it as a last resort She began its use under
protest, but soon found that her system as being
relieved OF the poison. as the sores assumed red
and healthy color, as though the blood was be-
coming pure and active. Mrs. Bailey continued
the s s. $. until last February every sore was
healed: she discarded chair and crutchcs, and
was for the first time in twelve years a well
woman. Her husband. Mr.. G. A. Bailey, Is in
business at liz Blackstone Street, Boston, and
win take pleasure in giving the details of this
wonderful cure. Send 70 us for Treatise on Blood
and Skin Diseases mailed free
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Without Regard to COSt1

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Plain and Arocade Velveteens
and Colored Laces for Dress
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Gents, Ladies and Chilrel.
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Bows, at very low prices.
Black and colored Jersey
Jersey Capes, Gents and Bop
Knit Jackets and White ShlHs
very cheap.
Calico shirts for 39c worth 75c'
Boys white shirts for Al cena
worth 60c.
Splendid line of ladies Coa@
and listers will be
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All other goods in stock al
Drices 10 suit 'he times.
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